6 Cal. 3d 55 - People v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 41 Cal. 3d 505 - People v. Burgener (1986), 17 Cal. 3d 687 - People v. Collins (1976)
4 federal appellate · 218 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 2 Cal. 3d 707 - Curry v. Superior Court · People v. Hamilton · Paulson v. Superior Court · 56 Cal. 2d 273 - Cardenas v. Superior Court · People v. Valenti
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince our decision in People v. Hamilton [], the trial court has at most a limited discretion to determine that the facts show an inability to perform the functions of a juror, and that inability must appear in the record as a demonstrable reality. Here the ambiguity in [the juror's] remarks was never resolved by proof, and the court was not entitled to do so by presuming the worst. Such a presumption, however well motivated, does not furnish the `good cause' required by the governing statutes.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Under these circumstances, there was no legal necessity within the meaning of Curry and Compton to deprive petitioner of his constitutionally protected freedom to choose to proceed with this jury. Once petitioner became aware of the misconduct and the judge's willingness to declare a mistrial, `the decision as to extent of the prejudice was for [petitioner] and his counsel.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`he didn't like to be on a case like this because it was hard to keep an open mind.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.